Spring 2024 Trip 248

Funky Punky

ForSue

mix-tape # 294
Photography by Chris Killip: Helen and her Hula-hoop (1984)
https://www.chriskillip.com/

In Decline   (a duct-ape minimal-synth mix-tape)

DE-002 Death Domain - Ethidium Bromide 7"

Death Domain aka Adam Stroupe is a science nerd from Baltimore and, like me, wears it as a badge of honor.  Death domains are stretches of amino acids found in proteins that signal for apoptosis, programmed cell death.  To my ears, his sound is undoubtedly one of the most bewildering, disorienting yet magnetic and infectious slices of downright bleak takes on synth-based dance music. A one man all-live-analogue electronic ice machine (who is also behind the likes of 'SIDS' - Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). His sound is as cryptically raw as it gets - summoning the seminal Industrial/EBM sounds of the likes of early Cabaret Voltaire, Skinny Puppy, and The Normal.

Ethidium Bromide

Obscure underground from Bloomington, Indiana, with most likely a Gizmos connection so this could fall under KBD Punk. Originally a one-time DIY project, a few of the members would go on to form MX-80-Sound.

Female/Male vox interplay over a jazzy bassline. Some lyrics about not wanting to work. Punk AF.

The Greatest Story Ever Told

More info

Chinaboise - "The Greatest Story Ever Told" (1975)

UK DIY, 1980

Minimal no-wave from USA ex-pats: Judy Nylon and Patti Paladin.

Snatch - "Joey" (1980)

Purchase here:
https://blacklightdistrictmusic.bandcamp.com/track/california-reaper-single-mix

California Reaper (Single Mix)

Psychotropic is the title track off Los Tones debut album due for release in October 2014.

FULL ALBUM AVAILABLE @ los-tones.bandcamp.com

Vinyl Release by Groovie Records
CD Release by Off The Hip Records

Recorded & Mixed by Owen Penglis at Goliath Professional Recording Studios.

Mastered by Mikey Young

Artwork by Blackbear

Photo by Vincent Fazio

Psychotropic

Synth and drummy post-punk by two annoying people—not my quote—from, I don't know, Berlin? Yes, this bedroom project shows high aspirations of conceptual nihilism in a rudimentary collage way. The album title is a doozy—stoner humor. First you hear a helicopter, then a drumbeat, and a great use of spatial placement. The lyrics are about something too political and philosophical to expound upon here, but worth a listen.

High For No Reason

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Klapper - "All Areas Of Life" (2024)

DRIVE YOUR CAR

Dystatik is pleased to present the first split album of the family by Corbeau Hangs & Polina Suffer. The Darkwave/Post Punk duo lead by Manuel Perez from Arizona and the Italy-based Gothic Darkwave duo by Tommaso Leporale and Beatrice Bartolini delivers a hypnotic Darkwave with dark music and madly lyrics.
credits
released November 3, 2024

Master by Dry_Feel
Designed by Tommaso Leporale
Artwork by Dry_Feel

Cassette/Digital

Polina Suffer - Horror News (Ft. Obsolencia Programada)

Gringo and Faux Discx are set to release an expanded version of HOOKWORMS debut EP on CD and digitally on March 4th 2016

Pre-order: http://gringorecords.limitedrun.com/products/566096-hookworms-hookworms-ep-bonus-tracks-cd

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A reissue of a 7 track expanded version of Hookworms 2011 self-titled debut EP off the back of two critically acclaimed albums - 2013's Pearl Mystic on Gringo and 2014's The Hum released worldwide on Domino arm Weird World – is both a marker from where Leeds five-piece have subsequently hurtled forwards from, but also a document and proof of the undeniable character that they've never allowed to waver even as all around them has changed.

The EP contains the first tracks the group ever recorded in vocalist and producer MJ's original Suburban Home Studio, with the group just a handful of local shows into their existence – one such show, supporting Sun Araw lead to its original release.  "It was a very exciting time for us," bassist MB recalls. "MJ having his first studio meant we'd gone from practicing in a tiny basement and receiving noise complaints to having a place where we could do what we wanted. We played with Sun Araw just as we were finishing the EP and Cameron Stallones enjoyed our set and asked to hear any recordings - then subsequently released it on cassette."

Hookworms have long since evolved into a mighty beast, live able to fill cavernous warehouses with a vitriolic form of kosmiche, as when headlining Liverpool Psych Fest, or when supporting fuzzy legends Slowdive during their 2014 comeback. Hookworms as a listen though already has in place several of the traits that have helped elevate them – the strutting bass and four note repetition of Teen Dreams is pure Modern Lovers, mining the group's 60's garage and proto-punk influences and mixing them with a caustic modernity. It's the only track that still makes an occasional appearance live; another highlight is the rolling bass thunder of I Have Some Business Out West crackles with the energy of an approaching storm: "Our gear wasn't as good back then so we did quite a bit of re-amping and post-production," MB comments. "The EP was basically a playground for experimentation with a bunch of new guitar pedals we'd recently acquired."

In addition, the reissue comes with additional early and rare recordings - the drone heavy initial version of Form and Function, which would appear on a split 7" alongside Nottingham-based peers Kogumaza, plus the swaggering rumbles of The Correspondent – which appeared on 2012 Sonic Cathedral compilation Psych For Sore Eyes. The former is a premonition of phase two of the band, foreshadowing the heavier, dense sound around Pearl Mystic; the latter still sounds like a wonderful outlier – which says something for a band whose boundaries have forever stretched towards the horizon.

MJ would also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for all the support, help and donations he has received after his studio in Leeds was flooded over Christmas. The band had been working on new material at Suburban Home Studios prior to the flood. 

Tracklisting:

Medicine Cabinet
Teen Dreams
I Have Some Business Out West
Resolution
Form and Function (originally released on a split 7" with Kogumaza on Gringo)
Deu (originally released on cassette Spur: Volume One compilation, Magnetic Tapes)
The Correspondent (originally released on Psych For Sore Eyes 7")

HOOKWORMS – Teen Dreams

H.Grimace - Royal Hush

To the Nameless Dead

As Rome Burns

Mirror 2017

Красный Террор

Alienation

LSD - Alien Mustangs

Prescription:Medicide

Guilt By Association

Waves Ahead of the Ocean

Sonic Demon

Microcosmos

Everything Unsaid Before (Все, Що Не Сказано Раніше)

Anarquía Coronada

Castigar

Die Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW) ist die Bezeichnung für die deutschsprachige Variante des Punk und New Wave, die ab 1976 aufkam und Anfang der 1980er Jahre ihren kommerziellen Höhepunkt erfuhr. Die NDW stellte keinen einheitlichen Musikstil dar, sondern zeigte sich sehr mannigfaltig. Es lassen sich für viele der Künstler Attribute finden, die sie von der Masse anderer Künstler unterscheiden würden. Kennzeichnend waren jedoch vor allem die deutsche Sprache, die relative Kurzlebigkeit und die häufige Rohheit und Kühle. Letzteres war der Grund, weshalb sich manche Bands gegen den Trend dieser Zeit davon distanzierten, jede deutschsprachige Popmusik der NDW zuzuordnen, wie z. B. Spliff. Aber auch ein Minimalismus der Darbietungen ist oft Stilmittel gewesen. Viele der Künstler waren nur damals musikalisch aktiv oder erfolgreich, einige hatten um 2000 ein Comeback.

Neue Deutsche Vomi

Frische Farbe - Lass Mich-ich Will Dich

Early UK DIY, dripping in Sex Pistols glamour/desperation. "Coming in a leather rage", post-Jubilee, doomed loft-squatters, painting a picture of dissatisfied youth ("Not just seeking new sensations"). 

Awesome example of how city life informs art, plotting escape plans, speeding on roads, and making fashion statements ("The nightime screams of colorful dreams"). This is it: the eternal rebellion! Just hope that we "arrive alive on the other side".

Vaultage 80 - A Vinyl Chapter

Emma Sharpe - "Motorway" (1980)

Bonehead is back! Last we heard of this self-proclaimed Detroit trash-pop artist, she was making the rounds for her self-released "You" single, mired in 60's girl-group garage and Joe Meek. Utter transformation ensues, and this carefully-produced EP, now bathes in disco beats, textural synths, and funky basslines. But make no mistake, this is still Bonehead, spewing genuine philosophical interrogations with pop sass. "Build It/Break It" is time-warped disco, and danceable no-wave track.  As if Madonna heard Algebra Suicide and recorded a new song. But not before popping a few Xanax.

yesterday's pleasures

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Bonehead - "Build it/Break it" (2020)

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Klapper - "All Areas Of Life" (2024)

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